The Madras high court's judgment on June 17, which decided an alimony dispute between an unmarried couple who have two children, took over the cerebral cortex of Twitter and other social media spaces a few days ago.
A full one year after Jayalalithaa was hospitalised on the night of September 22, 2016, followed by long hospitalisation and death on December 5, Tamil Nadu continues to be rocked by instability and non-governance of every which kind, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
This is a case relating to non-filing of Income Tax returns during 1991-94.
The Minister, facing charges of using a proxy to write his SSLC examination at a Centre in Tamil Nadu in September, has been evading arrest since the Madras high court on Tuesday rejected his anticipatory bail petition.
The Madras high court has ruled that those living in residential areas are not entitled to keep dogs or other pets as a matter of right. The direction came as the court dismissed a review petition by D Vikram, a resident of Coimbatore, challenging the order by the authorities asking him to 'remove forthwith his dogs', after neighbours complained that his canines annoyed and caused inconvenience to them.
Jayagopal, a former councillor who had been booked by the police on charges of attempt to commit culpable homicide, was nabbed from Krishnagiri district in western Tamil Nadu, police said.
The Madras High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by Swiss pharmaceutical major Novartis AG, challenging the constitutional validity of the section 3 (d) of the Patents (Amendment) Act 2005.
The Madras high court on Monday said there would be no holiday for schools and colleges on Tuesday and warned Tamil Nadu government that it would be held responsible for any untoward incident and breakdown of law and order in connection with agitations against the conviction of All India Dravida Munetra Kazhagam supremo Jayalalithaa.
On April 24, the High Court had directed the EC to register a case against Jayalalithaa following a petition filed by DMK MP C Kuppuswamy alleging that AIADMK leader had suppressed facts and filed nominations from four Assembly constituencies.
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court has posted to next week bail applications of former minister KN Nehru, his brother and few others in a case registered against them on land grab charges.
The legal counsel for Coimbatore-based Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals (RSCL) said the company would appeal against the Madras High Court order, which held that the company's derivatives contract with Axis Bank is valid.
In his petition, Kuppusamy had said that during the 2001 polls Jayalalithaa had suppressed the fact that she had filed nominations from four seats and filed a 'false affidavit' saying that she had filed papers from only two constituencies.
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah was on Wednesday sworn-in as the governor of Tamil Nadu. Madras high court Chief Justice M Y Eqbal administered the oath of office to Rosaiah at a function in Raj Bhavan in Chennai.
Granting the interim stay, a bench comprising justices C Nagappan and M Sathayanarayanan observed there had been a delay of over 11 years in the disposal of the mercy petitions filed by the convicts to the President seeking clemency.
On June 9, a state government notification had abolished Common Entrance Test and improvement examination with immediate effect.
Claiming that Tamils will be happy if the three Rajiv killers are spared the gallows, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi on Monday "fervently" asked for a cancellation of their death sentence.
A division bench comprising Justice V S Sirpurkar and Justice S M Ibrahim Khallifulla has issued a notice to Vaiko
B Chinnaswamy, father of Kausalya, whose husband Shankar was hacked to death in front of her in Udumlapet town and relieved him from all charges including that of criminal conspiracy.
In all, 31 persons were accused in the case. While one person had died during the course of the trial, two were acquitted.
Besides the 25, first additional sessions judge D Krishnaraja had awarded the death penalty to three persons responsible for the gruesome incident.
Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu, led by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, on Tuesday appealed to President Pratibha Patil to give consent for use of Tamil as the official language in Madras high court before attending the World Classical Tamil Conference in Coimbatore this week.
A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the charge by a Judge of the court that a Union minister had called him trying to influence him in a pending criminal case.
In a significant ruling, the Madras high court has held that a rape case cannot be quashed even if the victim 'resiles' from her allegations as the offence was not against any individual but against the state.
About 140 people out of 193 who were admitted to various government medical facilities after they consumed the spurious liquor on Tuesday night were currently stable, Kallakurichi district collector M S Prasanth said.
Is Governor Ravi acting without informing/consulting the Centre, or is the BJP leadership unsure of what to do with the DMK in Tamil Nadu? asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
The HC rejected the seers' bail application on Wednesday.
Submitting the application before Magistrate G Uttamaraj, the counsel said he had earlier filed an application seeking certain facilities like hospitalisation and permission to conduct pujas when the seer was arrested.
Opposing the Seer's bail application, prosecution lawyer K T S Tulsi informed the court that in the interrogation, which has been videographed, the seer "seems to be now realising that it was a mistake."
UK telecom giant Vodafone has alleged that its Indian joint venture partner, the Essar group, may be involved in violation of insider-trading regulations. The dispute between the two came into the open after Essar proposed a reverse merger of group company Essar Telecom Holdings (ETHPL) into listed entity Indian Securities (ISL).
All the four were detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for making speeches supporting the outlawed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam in Chennai in April 2002.
Mayajaal Entertainment Ltd, which will be vested with the business activities of Pentamedia Graphics Ltd after a business restructuring, will apply for listing on stock exchanges in September.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate S Rajagopalan posted the complaint to September 27 when it would be taken up for further proceedings after scrutiny.
First time, an Indian court revisits a patent office order.
Police on Thursday informed the Madras high court that Bakrudeen, allegedly behind planting of the bomb on Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani's yatra route near Madurai, is absconding and not in its custody.
Nalini, lodged in the Special Prison for Women in Vellore for the last 27 years, had sought six months leave to make arrangements for the marriage of her daughter.
The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered issuance of notice to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on a petition from his All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam rival challenging his election from Sivaganga constituency in the May Lok Sabha elections.
In yet another setback to Finnish handset maker Nokia, the Tamil Nadu government has slapped on it a Rs 2,400 crore (Rs 24 billion) tax demand notice related to the devices sold from its Chennai factory.
The comments gave a false picture to the public that a government could not be questioned or found fault with whatever it did, the petition said.
It is a tale of two deals: One completed and the other, announced and later aborted.
In a startling revelation, a Madras High Court Judge told an open court that a Union minister sought to influence him to grant anticipatory bail to a doctor and his son in a forged mark sheets case filed by CBI.
